3D surface profile diagnosis using digital image processing for laboratory use

The measurement of the surface quality and the profile preciseness is major issues in many industrial branches such that the surface quality of semi products directly affects the subsequent production steps. Although, there are many ways to obtain required data, the hardware necessary for the measurements such as 2D or 3D scanners, depending on the problem’s complexity, is too expensive. Therefore, in this paper, what we put forward as a novelty is an algorithm which is verified on the model of simple 3D scanner on the image processing basis with the resolution of 0.1 mm. There are many ways to scan surface profile; however, the image processing currently is the most trending topic in industry automation. Most importantly, in order to obtain surface images, standard high resolution reflex camera is used and thus the post processing could be realized with MatLab as the software environment. Therefore, this solution is an alternative to the expensive scanners, and single-purpose devices could be extended by many additional functions.